Oregon Ballot Measure 59 (2008)
Oregon Ballot Measure 59 was an initiated state statute Initiatives and referendums in the United States, ballot measure sponsored by Bill Sizemore that appeared on the Oregon state elections, 2008#Ballot measures, November 4, 2008 general election ballot in Oregon, United States. If it had passed, Oregon would have join Alabama, Iowa, and Louisiana as the only states to allow federal income taxes to be fully deducted on state income tax returns. Background Official Ballot Title The official ballot title is: ''Creates an unlimited deduction for federal income taxes on individual taxpayers' Oregon income-tax returns.'' History This is the third time Sizemore has put a similar measure on the ballot. In 2000, he qualified Oregon Ballot Measure 91 (2000), Measure 91, which would have made federal income taxes fully deductible on state taxes. It lost 55–45, but a legislative referral that increased limited state deductions of federal taxes passed. In 2007, the limit on federal ded ...
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